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July 22, 2004 Link to this post
Halo 2 Movie Ad now Viewable
So the big news of the morning is that Microsoft has made a small version of the Halo ad currently showing in Loews theatres available to the public. The astoundingly frustrating part of this is that the page is viewable ONLY on a PC - Macs can't even see the teaser. This seems unreasonable, for content that was designed to be advertising in the first place. Even on a PC, the video is only available in a streaming format - and only, in fact, on Internet Explorer. Halo Orbit has made a downloadable version of this footage available - but it's in asf format, and it's a tad funky (the time data is wrong; Windows Media Player thinks it's about 15 seconds shorter than it really is... it'll play the whole thing, but the progress bar gets pinned at the end for the last third of the movie), and this screws up the program I'd normally use to convert this to a mac-friendly format. (It's also not readable as is in the MacOSX version of WMP9.) Because of all this, I grabbed a local copy myself, from the MSN page; you can find it (2.1 mb, QuickTime format) on files.bungie.org. Here's hoping a larger version, more cross-platform-compatible, will be released from on high. (Louis Wu 11:38:25 UTC)
